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Originally Posted by Rhyme
There are idiots and drunks who increase the risks for others, so we attempt to restrict those persons. We take these risks as reasonable--you don't often hear the media report a random car accident
But you do hear reports about random shootings because we generally feel that these ought not to happen. A reasonable person should expect to go to the mall, the theatre, a political rally, the office, or the class room without the expectation of any risk of being killed without provocation or recourse. Any risk of a random gun death is an unreasonable one; it's a violation to the social contract.
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I agree with your overall point, but I think you're not being entirely consistent in what you're calling "random." A crazy guy shooting people in a shopping mall is no more nor less random than a drunk driver crossing into opposing traffic and taking out a family.
If only we could get the mass shooters to focus their craziness on drunk drivers...